Fat books

Looking for lots of reading - a whole series of nice, fat books? Here are my favorites. With one exception, they're all fantasy, because that's where the fat books are! Also check out the Prolific Writers list.

[As I said before, there's no point in reiterating a lot of description - Amazon does it so much better than me; so I've provided links (the images, or text links where no image is available) to the appropriate pages in Amazon.]

The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan

This has got to be the winner in the "lots of books, all very fat" stakes! If only it was finished, it would be the ultimate. However, if you haven't come across this series before, count yourself very lucky, because it's nearly there. The 12th is due out late 2009. Think about the poor sods who discovered him early in the piece, and have been hanging in there for years! And by the way, it's really worth it.

the Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert

Science fiction, not fantasy, and not as reliably fat as the fantasy books. Dune (the first book) is fat; the next two in the series (the original "trilogy") aren't; then the next two are fat again. From what I've seen the Brian Herbert books are also a reasonable size, so, overall, there's a good lot of reading there.

Janny Wurts

The Wars of Light and Shadow

The Curse of the Mistwraith

The Ships of Merior

Warhost of Vastmark

Alliance of Light

(continuing The Wars of Light and Shadow)

Fugitive Prince

Grand Conspiracy

Peril's Gate

Traitor's Knot

also see books written with Raymond Feist

Tad Williams

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn

The Dragonbone Chair

Stone of Farewell

The Green Angel Tower

Raymond Feist

The Riftwar Saga

Magician

Silverthorn

A Darkness at Sethanon

novels of the Riftwar Cycle

Prince of the Blood

The King's Buccaneer

Serpentwar Saga

Shadow of a Dark Queen

Rise of a Merchant Prince

Rage of a Demon King

Shards of a Broken Crown

with Janny Wurts:

Daughter of the Empire

Servant of the Empire

Mistress of the Empire

David Eddings

The Belgariad and the Mallorean are fairly moderate sized books, though there are five in each series, making ten in all about the same characters, so a reasonable amount of reading there. But Eddings' later books all get a lot fatter (a common occurrence among authors, who find it easier to get published with smaller books; once they've made a name for themselves, publishers are more willing to fund the cost of fatter books). I do like the first series best, but the others are still worth reading.